CvetkA Hojnik En sof – Neskončnost / The Infinity ∞ ∞ ∞ NASLOVNICA / COVER EN SOF III Akril, mešana tehnika, vezana plošča Acrylic, mixed media, plywood 50 × 50 cm LEVO / LEFT EN SOF I Akril, mešana tehnika, platno Acrylic, mixed media, canvas 50 × 50 cm C VETK A H OJNIK V MARIBORSKI SINAGOGI EN SOF – NESKONČNOST Najnovejša samostojna razstava EN SOF Cvetke Hojnik v mariborski sinagogi predstavlja večdimenzionalno nadgradnjo njenega dosedanjega opusa, saj gre za projekt v okviru magistrske naloge, zastavljen kot homage lendavskim Judom, navezujoč na mistično izročilo kabale, kjer se sreča z nekoliko drugačno numerološko simboliko (platonsko desetko zamenja kabalistična sedmica), v povezavi s hebrejskim alefbetom, hkrati pa pridobijo njene nebeške beline tudi pomen mrliškega ogrinjala, vendar v smislu transcendentnega, onostranskega nadaljevanja bivanja v neskončnosti (en sof) oziroma neskončni svetlobi (en sof or) v skladu z judovskim verovanjem. Sicer pa se Geneza dejansko prične z Jehovovim sedmeročrkovnim ukazom: Bodi svetloba, kar je navsezadnje demiurško povzročen BIG BANG. Brez dvoma predstavlja Cvetka Hojnik na sicer izjemno raznoliki slovenski umetniški sceni svojevrstno zanimivost, saj na specifičen način združuje izkušnje s področja tekstilnega oblikovanja s klasičnim likovnim ustvarjanjem, pri čemer raziskuje zmeraj drugačne tehnike in materiale, s katerimi dosega samosvoje, asociativno abstraktno in koloristično ekspresivno, četudi po večini nekromatično učinkovanje likovne celote z bogato simbolično pripovednostjo v prevladujoče geometrijsko stiliziranem oblikotvorju na pragu minimalizma. V zgodnjem obdobju ustvarja likovna dela izključno z ∞ ∞ najrazličnejšimi tkaninami, zunaj okvirov klasičnih tabelnih formatov, kot neke vrste koloristično izjemno pestrega patchworka, neredko v obliki draperij, pogosto zavzemajoč velike stenske in marsikdaj tudi talne površine, kasneje pa odkriva različne možnosti kombiniranja tabelnega slikarstva v tehnikah akrila ali olja z uporabo tekstilnih aplikacij različnih tekstur in debelin, neredko posredujoč informelski vtis, pri čemer v najnovejšem obdobju pritrja na slikovno površino tudi posamezne sfere (npr. kroglasto prepletene žice) v smislu asemblaža. Če je minulo obdobje temeljilo na preigravanju organsko in geometrijsko abstraktnega oblikotvorja z občasno prisotnostjo stilizirane človeške figure, poudarjajoč kontrastnost med linijami oziroma šivi poljubnih oblik z različno napetimi barvnimi ploskvami ob značilnem, zvočno fluidnem učinkovanju valovanja in prelivanja bogato kromatičnih odtenkov, pa umetnica v novejši, simbolistični fazi, z ločnico nekje sredi prejšnjega desetletja, radikalno poseže v dotedanje oblikotvorje in kromatičnost ter se usmeri v izrazitejšo geometrijsko, pravolinijsko in krožno stilizacijo v obliki evklidskih likov (kvadrat, krog, redkeje trikotnik) in pogoste spirale v izključno nepestrem koloritu (črna, siva, bela) s posameznimi, redkimi kromatskimi akcenti (na primer rdeča). Sicer pa lahko pri slikovnih površinah Cvetke Hojnik naletimo tudi na izrazite kontraste v obliki osamljenih in toliko bolj kričečih, žareče rdečih, v redkih primerih tudi rumenih in oranžnih poudarkov ženskega principa. Rdeča kot ogenj, kri, strast in hrepenenje, ki vnaša prisotnost podzavesti in nereda, a hkrati pomeni neprestano obnavljajoče se življenje, se pri umetnici pojavlja že v minulih fazah. Psihološko napetost stopnjuje črno-bela modulacija, ki ima poleg posredovanja izrazite globinsko prostorske iluzije tudi večpomensko simbolno vlogo. Hladno nekromatsko črnino včasih dopolnjuje bogata paleta sivih odtenkov z učinkom grisailla, simbolizirajoč moški princip, racionalnost in ne nazadnje umrljivost. Likovni ciklus iz let 2012/13 sicer označuje popolna črnina, ki pa jo umetnica doživlja kot duhovno, transcendentno dimenzijo, a hkrati pomeni tudi avtoportretno značilnost, saj se sama rada odeva v osebno kreirana črna oblačila v smislu živega gesamtkunstwerka. Prostorske orientacije spredaj/zadaj, spodaj/zgoraj, levo/desno postanejo nepomembne, saj lahko kompozicije opazujemo iz različnih perspektiv in razdalje, hkrati pa je dogajanje obogateno še z nenehnimi kontrastiranji med ploskovitostjo in reliefnostjo oziroma gladkimi in strukturiranimi površinami z možnostjo hkratnega optičnega in taktilnega zaznavanja, nadalje pa so prisotna še simbolična preigravanja med svetlobo in temo, žensko mehkobo in moško grobostjo, materialnostjo in duhovnostjo, minljivostjo in večnostjo idr. Na slikovnih površinah se hkrati pojavljajo drobni grafizmi v obliki kvadratkov, vzporednih linijskih nizov ali komaj vidnih spiralic, s katerimi dopolnjuje mrežasto ali adicijsko nanizane večje kvadratne in zmeraj pogostejše krožne like, ustvarjajoč ritmizirano kompozicijo, ki se širi tudi izven formata kvadratnih nosilcev. Tukaj pride do izraza umetničino poigravanje s temeljniki, saj se po stenah razstavišč lahko razvije celo prava preproga, na katero so v tonskem razponu od žareče beline preko zmeraj gostejših sivin do »predbigbangovske« črne šele pritrjene tabelne slike. Likovno dogajanje se tako ritmično širi od najmanjšega grafitnega zapisa na kvadratke, od tam na okvir slike, nato na »preprogo« in slednjič na belo steno kot zadnjo temeljnico v nizu. Likovnina se tako z razstavnim prostorom zlije v enovit pojav, kot na primer na zadnji samostojni razstavi v Galeriji DLUM, kjer je Cvetka Hojnik spremenila tri stene spodnje etaže v neke vrste neskončen iluminiran rokopis v simbolni obliki odvitega rotulusa. Podobno ambientalno, vendar nekoliko intimneje je zastavljena tudi pričujoča razstava v mariborski sinagogi, katere koncept sestoji iz treh segmentov, z mestoma reliefno zasnovanimi likovnimi deli na pravokotnih nosilcih izključno belega kolorita: 1. centralno na tla postavljeno drevo življenja v obliki poliptiha (krona, razumevanje, modrost, moč, milost, lepota, sijaj, temelj, zmaga, kraljestvo); 2. na panojih nameščene tabelne, površinsko reliefno strukturirane, stilizirane podobe nagrobnikov lendavskega judovskega pokopališča v Dolgi vasi; 3. precedenčno iz vezanih plošč ustvarjeni beli nosilci, viseči pred gotskimi okni, katerih pravilno, položno, pravokotno obliko prekinjajo ob robovih izžagani kvadratki, ki jih umetnica prilepi na slikovne površine (minus-plus), ustvarjajoč pri tem skorajda visokoreliefni učinek. Izhodiščna likovna objekta Cvetke Hojnik sta torej kvadrat in krog, predstavljajoč sintaktično osnovo likovne pripovedi v obliki razsrediščenega kompozicijskega omrežja s pričetkom in koncem nekje v neskončnosti, prehajajoč iz enega platnenega nosilca na drugega. Kvadrat s pravokotniško izpeljavo, pogosto na podlagi zlatega reza, predstavlja v pitagorejskem nauku, izhajajočem še iz predhelenističnih izročil, simbol tetrade, torej štirih filozofskih elementov, ki imajo vsak svoje število ∞ ∞ s skupnim nazivom quaternarius: zemlja 4, voda 3, zrak 2 in ogenj 1. Aritmetična vsota prvih štirih števil je število 10, dekada, simbol univerzalnega znanja, popolnosti in božanskosti, ki se odraža tudi v umetničinih spiralah, simbolih življenja, plodnosti in večno dopolnjujočega se kromosomskega heliksa (Fibonaccijevo zaporedje oziroma zlati rez). Krog predstavlja orbis mundi, torej vesolje in duhovno dimenzijo, trikotnik pa dopolnjuje kvadrat v smislu popolnosti, prav tako v skladu s pitagorejsko simboliko (predstavljajmo si kvaternarius v obliki trikotnika z osnovo 4 in vrhom 1). Ne nazadnje lahko na posameznih, še posebej najnovejših slikah Cvetke Hojnik zasledimo skorajda do kvadratnega roba nosilcev včrtane krožnice, kot bi šlo za aluzijo na kvadraturo kroga, simbola alkimističnega opus magnuma (lapis philosophicum ali kamen modrosti). Prodor v prostor predstavljajo najnovejše, že omenjene sfere ali krogle, ki se lahko iz slikovne površine »odkotalijo« tudi na tla, pri čemer zbujajo žični prepleti asociacije na večdimenzionalno prostorsko vozlanje kozmičnih strun na nivoju Planckove konstante. Število sedem, ki je tokratno likovno in ikonografsko izhodišče kabalistične razstave Cvetke Hojnik, premore še bolj raznovrstno, celo antagonistično simboliko, pogosto upodobljeno v geometrijskih shemah, upoštevajoč enačenje številk in črk, poglabljajoč se v samo skrivnost bivanja. Umetniška dela Cvetke Hojnik, navkljub vtisu puristične jasnosti, očitno zahtevajo obsežne predpriprave, saj je treba na številnih skicah, poleg opredelitve kompozicije in proporcev, določiti tudi različne materiale in izbrati barve, upoštevaje hkrati umestitev v specifičen galerijski ambient, pri čemer pomeni vsaka razstava nov postavitveni izziv, tako za avtorico kot za opazovalca, saj ga dela iz zmeraj drugačnega vidika motivirajo k meditaciji o prepletanju življenja in smrti, o součinkovanju reda/smotrnosti in kaosa/naključja, o manifestacijah podzavesti skozi zavest in ne nazadnje, ali ni kozmogonija morda resnično posledica teogonije, oziroma stvarnikovega (demiurgovega) poseganja v stvarstvo. Mario Berdič ∞ EN SOF V Akril, mešana tehnika, vezana plošča Acrylic, mixed media, plywood 50 × 50 cm ∞ EN SOF IX Akril, mešana tehnika, vezana plošča Acrylic, mixed media, plywood 50 × 50 cm ∞ EN SOF VIII Akril, mešana tehnika, vezana plošča Acrylic, mixed media, plywood 50 × 50 cm LEVO ZGORAJ / TOP LEFT BINA / BINAH Razumevanje, Drevo življenja Understanding, The Tree of Life Akril, mešana tehnika, platno Acrylic, mixed media, canvas 40 × 40 cm ∞ DESNO ZGORAJ / TOP RIGHT KETER / KETER Krona, Drevo življenja Crown, The Tree of Life Akril, mešana tehnika, platno Acrylic, mixed media, canvas 40 × 40 cm LEVO SPODAJ / BOTTOM LEFT HOHMA / CHOKHMAH Modrost, Drevo življenja Wisdom, The Tree of Life Akril, mešana tehnika, platno Acrylic, mixed media, canvas 40 × 40 cm DESNO SPODAJ / BOTTOM RIGHT JESOD / YESOD Temelj, Drevo življenja Foundation, The Tree of Life Akril, mešana tehnika, platno Acrylic, mixed media, canvas 30 × 30 cm ∞ HESED / CHESED Milost, Drevo življenja Grace, The Tree of Life Akril, mešana tehnika, platno Acrylic, mixed media, canvas 40 × 40 cm, detajl / detail ∞ ∞ ∞ EN SOF II Akril, mešana tehnika, vezana plošča Acrylic, mixed media, plywood 50 × 130 cm, detajl / detail C VETK A H OJNIK AT THE MARIBOR SYNAGOGUE EN SOF – THE INFINITY The latest Cvetka Hojnik’s independent exhibition EN SOF at the Maribor Synagogue represents a multi-dimensional upgrade of her previous opus, for it is a project in the frame of her master thesis, designed as an homage to Lendava Jews, referring to the mystical tradition of Kabbalah where it meets a somewhat different numerological symbolism (the Platonian ten is substituted by the Kabbalic seven) in connection to Hebraic alphabet, while at the same time her heavenly whites gain the meaning of a shroud but in the sense of transcendent, afterlife continuation of being in the infinity (en sof) or in the infinite light (en sof ohr) in line with Jewish beliefs. However, Genesis actually starts with Jehovah’s sevenletter command: Let there be light, which is, after all, demiurgically ∞ induced BIG BANG. Without any doubt, Cvetka Hojnik represents a unique phenomenon on the Slovenian otherwise extremely heterogeneous artistic scene, since she in a specific way combines experience from the field of textile design with classical artistic creativity, exploring new techniques and materials with which she achieves original associatively abstract and colouristically expressive, though mostly non-chromatic effect of the artistic work with rich symbolic narration in the prevailingly geometrically stylised morphology on the threshold of minimalism. In her early period, she created artistic works exclusively with different kinds of fabric, out of the frame of classic panel ∞ formats, like a kind of colouristically extremely varied patchwork, not seldom in the form of draperies, often occupying large wall surfaces and many a time the floor, as well. Later she started to discover various possibilities of combining panel painting in acrylic or oil techniques with the use of textile applications of different textures and thickness, often conveying the Informel impression. In the recent period, she fastens individual spheres (e. g. wires woven into a sphere) to the painting surface in the sense of assemblage, as well. While the last period was based on replaying organically and geometrically abstract morphology with periodic presence of a stylised human figure, emphasizing the contrast between the lines or stiches of arbitrary forms with differently tense colour planes at a typical sound-fluid effect of undulation and flashing with richly chromatic shades, the artist in the recent, symbolist phase, that started somewhere in the middle of the last decade, radically changes the morphology and chromaticism of that period and redirects into explicitly geometric, rectangular and spherical stylization in the form of Euclidean shapes (square, circle, less often triangle) and often spirals in exclusively non-chromatic scheme (black, grey, white) with individual, rare chromatic accents (for example, red). Moreover, on the painting surfaces by Cvetka Hojnik one can come across explicit contrasts in the form of lonely and therefore even gaudier hot red, in some rare cases even yellow and orange, colouristically emphases of the female principle. The red colour, red like fire, blood, passion and desire, that adds the presence of the subconscious and chaos but at the same time carries the meaning of continually renewing life, has appeared in the artist’s work yet in her previous phases. The psychological tension is intensified by black-andwhite modulation which has – besides conveying of an explicit depth illusion, a multidimensional symbolic role. The cold nonchromatic black is sometimes complemented by a wide range of grey shades with the grisaille effect, symbolizing the male principle, rationality and, not least important, mortality. The latest cycle (2012/13) is characterized by solid black but the artist experiences it as a spiritual, transcendent dimension. At the same time black is a characteristic of a self-portrait since the artist loves wearing black clothes she creates herself in the sense of alive Gesamtkunstwerk. The spatial orientations front/behind, below/above, left/right become unimportant since the compositions can be observed from different perspectives and distances and the happening is at the same time enriched with perpetual contrasts between planes and reliefs or between even and structured surfaces with a possibility of simultaneous optical and tactile perception. Also, symbolic replay between light and darkness, womanly softness and virile roughness, materiality and spirituality, transitoriness and eternity, etc. is present. On the painting surfaces, tiny graphisms in the form of squares, parallel line series or barely visible little spirals appear at the same time. They complement the reticular or addingly composed bigger square or more and more frequently circular shapes, creating a rhytmized composition which spreads beyond the format of the square base. Here the artist’s play with bases is reflected, for even a real carpet can develop on the walls of the exhibition grounds, covered with panel paintings in the range of colour tones from radiant white over ever denser greys to “pre-Big Bang” black. Thus the artistic happening rhythmically spreads from the tiniest graphite record to small squares, from there to the frame of the painting, then to the “carpet” and finally to the white wall as the last base in the series. Therefore the artistic work and the exhibition grounds fuse together in a uniform phenomenon like for example at the solo exhibition at the Gallery of the Maribor Fine Artists Society (DLUM) where Cvetka Hojnik transformed three walls of the inferior floor into a kind of endless illuminated manuscript as a symbolic unwound rotulus. The exhibition at the Maribor Synagogue is ambientally similar but a bit more intimate. Its concept is composed of three segments, with works of art with partial relief design on rectangular holders in exclusively white colour: 1. in the centre, the tree of life standing on the ground in the form of polyptych (crown, understanding, wisdom, strength, grace, beauty, splendour, foundation, victory, kingdom); 2. superficially reliefstructured tables set on panels, stylized images of tombstones of Jewish cemetery in Dolga vas at Lendava; 3. white holders precedently created from formwork panels, hanging in front of gothic windows, the regular, gently sloping form of which is being interrupted by little squares sawn at their borders that the artist glued to the painting surfaces (minus-plus), creating by that almost a high-relief effect. The basic artistic objects used by Cvetka Hojnik are thus square and circle, representing the syntactic base of the artistic narration in the form of decentralized compositional net with its beginning and end somewhere in the infinity, passing from one canvas to another. Within the Pythagorean doctrine, originating ∞ ∞ from the pre-Hellenistic tradition, a square with rectangular realization, often based on the golden section, is a symbol of tetrad, i. e. four philosophical elements, each of them having its own number with a common name quaternarius: earth 4, water 3, air 2 and fire 1. The arithmetic sum of the first four numbers is 10, a decade, a symbol of universal knowledge, perfection and divinity which reflects in the artist’s spirals, symbols of life, fertility and ever-complementing of the chromosomal helix (Fibonacci’s sequence or the golden section). The circle represents orbis mundi, i. e. the universe and the spiritual dimension, while the triangle complements the square in the sense of perfection, in accordance with the Pythagorean symbolism, as well (picture yourself a quaternarius in the form of a triangle with the 4 as its base and 1 as the vertex). After all, on individual, especially recent Cvetka Hojnik’s paintings, circles inscribed almost to the square border of the base can be seen, as if they were allusions to the squaring the circle, a symbol of the alchemical opus magnum (lapis philosophorum or the philosopher’s stone). Her breakthrough into the space is represented by latest, aforementioned spheres or balls that can “roll” from the painting surface even to the floor, at which the wire intertwinement evoke associations of multidimensional space knotting of cosmic strings on the Planck constant level. The number seven that is this time artistic and iconographic basis of Cvetka Hojnik’s kabbalistic exhibition comprises even more variagated, even antagonistic symbolism, often depicted in geometrical schemes, complying with equating of numbers and letters, deeply engaging in the sole mystery of being. Works of art by Cvetka Hojnik, in spite of the impression of puritan Platonian intelligibility, obviously require extensive preparations, for beside defining the composition and proportions, on several sketches different materials must be projected and colours must be chosen, taking into consideration the placement into a specific gallery environment at the same time. Therefore each exhibition poses a setting challenge, both for the artist and for the visitors, since the works each time from a different angle motivate them to meditation about intertwinement of life and death, about co-effect of order/expedience and chaos/ coincidence, about manifestations of the subconscious through the consciousness, and moreover, whether cosmogony is not perhaps in fact the consequence of theogony, or the Creator’s (Demiurge’s) interference with the creation. Mario Berdič C VETK A H OJNIK Cvetka Hojnik je rojena v Murski Soboti. Po končani gimnaziji v Murski Soboti je diplomirala na Naravoslovnotehniški fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani, Oddelek za tekstilstvo, študijski program oblikovanja tekstilij in oblačil (prof. Darko Slavec). Študira tudi na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Ljubljani. Leta 2013 je imela pregledno razstavo v Galeriji – Muzeju Lendava. Ob tej priložnosti je izšla njena monografija. Za svoje ustvarjanje je prejela več nagrad in priznanj, med drugim nagrado DLUM 2006, posebno priznanje na razstavi Hommage Spacalu 2007, veliko odkupno nagrado na Ex Temporu Piran na temo Soline (2009) in priznanje lendavskega župana mag. Antona Balažeka za kulturne dosežke doma in v tujini (2013). Je članica DLUM, ZDSLU, Avstrijskega društva likovnih umetnikov ter Društva mednarodnih svobodnih umetnikov. Živi in ustvarja v Lendavi. Cvetka Hojnik was born in Murska Sobota. After finishing Grammar School in Murska Sobota, she graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering of the University in Ljubljana, Department of the Textile and Fashion Design, study programme Textile and Fashion Design (Prof. Darko Slavec). She also studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. For her creative work, she has been awarded several times, e. g. she received an award by the Maribor Fine Artists Society in 2006, a special award at the Hommage to Spacal exhibition in 2007, major purchase prize at the Piran Ex Tempore on the saltpans topic (2009) and a prize by the mayor of Lendava Mag. Anton Balažek for her cultural achievements in Slovenia and abroad (2013). She is a member of the Maribor Fine Artists Society, the Union of the Slovene Fine Artists Associations, the Austrian Fine Artists Association and the International Association of Freelance Artists. She lives and works in Lendava. ∞ CvetkA Hojnik En sof – Neskončnost / The Infinity ∞ Center judovske kulturne dediščine Sinagoga Maribor 12. 11.–31. 12. 2014 Koordinatorici projekta / Project coordinators Cvetka Hojnik, Marjetka Bedrač Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor 12th November – 31st December 2014 Besedilo / Text by Mario Berdič Organizacija in izvedba projekta Center judovske kulturne dediščine Sinagoga Maribor, zanj Marjetka Bedrač, v. d. direktorja Organization and realization of the project Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor, on its behalf Marjetka Bedrač, acting director Prevod in jezikovni pregled / Translated and proofread by Valerija Trojar Fotografije / Photographs Erik Žoldoš Tehnična podpora / Technical support Vito Dorojevič Projekt sta podprli / The project was supported by 73(083.824) Za tehnično izvedbo eksponatov se zahvaljujemo sodelavcem in dijakom Lesarskega centra Maribor. / We thank the workers and students of Lesarski center Maribor (Wood Education Centre Maribor) for technical realization of the exhibits. Oblikovanje / Design by Dušan Pogačar Maribor, november 2014 / Maribor, November 2014 © 2014, Center judovske kulturne dediščine Sinagoga Maribor, Vse pravice pridržane. © 2014, Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor, All rights reserved. HOJNIK, Cvetka En sof - neskončnost : [Center judovske kulturne dediščine Sinagoga Maribor, 12.11.-31. 12. 2014] = The infinity : [Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor, 12th November - 31st December 2014] / Cvetka Hojnik ; [besedilo Mario Berdič ; prevod Valerija Trojar ; fotografije Erik Žoldoš]. - Maribor : Center judovske kulturne dediščine Sinagoga, 2014 COBISS.SI-ID 80062977 Tisk / Printed by Design Studio Naklada / Edition 150 izvodov / 150 copies CIP - Kataložni zapis o publikaciji Univerzitetna knjižnica Maribor Center judovske kulturne dediščine Sinagoga Maribor Židovska ulica 4, 2000 Maribor SI-Slovenija tel.: +386(0)2 252 78 36; faks: +386(0)2 252 78 37 info@sinagogamaribor.si www.sinagogamaribor.si ∞ ∞
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